Download Sherlock Holmes on your PlayBook compliments of BlackBerry!

Fancy a free movie tonight? How about Sherlock Holmes, compliments of BlackBerry? While some people are reporting seeing this pop up in the Featured Apps in BlackBerry App World, others (like me) couldn't get the offer to show. In any case, there is a work around so if you don't see the offer, don't fret! Follow the instructions below, depending on your location. Also worth noting, it states it's a limited time offer, so you might want to take advantage of the download sooner rather than later.

Canada:
1. Go to blackberrycanada.roxionow.com/redeem
2. Enter the code SHERLOCK
3. If you already have a BlackBerry Video Store account, log in. If not, create one.
4. Download the free BlackBerry Video Store app on your PlayBook, if you don't have it already.
5. Log in to the app and go to My Library. You should see Sherlock Holmes under Movies.
6. Click to download.

United States:
1. Go to BlackBerry.roxionow.com/redeem
2. Enter the code WATSON
3. If you already have a BlackBerry Video Store account, log in. If not, create one.
4. Download the free BlackBerry Video Store app on your PlayBook, if you don't have it already.
5. Log in to the app and go to My Library. You should see Sherlock Holmes under Movies.
6. Click to download.

The download was going pretty slow for me but people in the forums reported theirs only took 5 minutes. I'm not sure if the servers are being crushed at the moment or if it's just my WiFi but slow and steady wins the race, as they say. Let us know if you're seeing the promotion in App World, and if you've been able to download the free movie. Now excuse me, I'm off to get the HD cables out and make some popcorn for movie night. ;)

Your not the only one, I received the offer and went in to download and was told the offer expired, what the heck. How long was this offer available? 24 hours? We don't all live on our playbook 24/7, some of us have a life and we would like to get in on some of these offers also.

I know... I feel your pain. I'm in Canada and for a long time the video store was not available to us either. RIM is a Canadian company. But the thing is, it's not about the desire, it's about licensing and content. It's not up to RIM alone. I feel for you though...

Selection is poor? Compared to what? I'd venture to guess that Netflix doesn't have any movies released in 2012...and I see Hunger Games, Lorax, Safe, and Battleship (all released within the last month) in the BB Video store.

LOL.. I don't know why some people have such a chubby for Netflix. Personally, I don't watch a lot of old movies or tv shows so Netflix is pretty much a waste for me. I wish RIM (or Blockbuster) would bring a subscription based model to the PlayBook with new releases (i.e. $10-15 per month for unlimited downloads). I would gladly pay it to dump both Netflix and Blockbuster by mail.

That's why we need either an AirPlay app or similar functionality. So we don't have to find the mini-HDMI cable. Of course, it doesn't matter since I shipped out my PB out this afternoon for warranty service. I hope since I hit the code correctly, I will be able to download the movie once I get my PB back in 5 to 7 business days. :)

A micro HDMI cable cost me $5 off Amazon. For the Apple Air Play, you need Apple TV which costs $100 and doesn't even come with a HDMI cable. Why not buy a $5 HDMI cable for the PlayBook and constantly have it plugged into your TV?

That's why RIM needs to make a dock with HDMI out, full size USB and full size SD card slot. It looks so ugly laying down your PlayBook just to watch a movie or do a presentation! I hope they bring USB hosting with OS2.1

In Toronto and the sign up for the store through the web link does not work. For some reason the submit button isn't live. It accepted my code, and I filled in all the required fields twice...but submit is not a live button!

It sure does work! Make sure you have the app on your PB, then go to the website in the instructions and enter in sherlock (no matter on the CAPS). Make an account and then go to the app on the PB and sign in, go to my library and the movie is there to download.

If it is a slow download then you have a slow internet connection, mine took less than 10mins. The other thing is that the receipt I just received in my email was a ZERO dollar receipt so to those that post that it said 14.99 they are lying. Also the movie is free to keep, this is not just a rental that disappears in 48 hours.

Download the app first if you're having a problem setting up an account. All the instructions aren't on the webpage for creating one. Open the app and swipe down from the top. Go into settings and there will an option for regristration. After you're done there go back to the redeem page and sign in. The download will appear when you go back into the app.

I suppose that depends on quite a few subjective considerations. Everyone I know who has seen it (I have not) says it's absolutely horrible -- except one person. Turns out that one person is young enough (in her twenties) to have never seen any previous Holmes movies (Oh, Basil!) or read any of the novels. She LOVED the movie.

So based on my polling, if you have never heard of Holmes before, you stand a good chance of really enjoying this film. Otherwise, you'll most likely hate it.

I enjoyed this movie despite having read the novels and seen some of the old movies. Its certainly a new interpretation of Holmes, but not so far off from the original character. Give it a chance and you may like it. You will be disappointed if you want the same old Sherlock that's been done a thousand times.

1. Go to blackberrycanada.roxionow.com/redeem... (DONE)
2. Enter the code SHERLOCK...(DONE)
3. If you already have a BlackBerry Video Store account, log in. If not, create one...(DONE)
4. Download the free BlackBerry Video Store app on your PlayBook......(DONE)
5. Log in to the app and go to My Library. You should see Sherlock Holmes under Movies...(NOPE)
"Its not showing up, just my other ones I have purchase but not sherlock homes. So what should I do to get the download to my PlayBook???

EMEA specially Asia is savings RIM's ass and we are the one that being neglected. Video and music store is not available in our country, work your ass RIM, do all the paper works and sign that f%”\¤ licensing rights. Thanks! -BlackBerry Believer.

* BlackBerry by choice *
Working just fine for me in the US. This will be the 2nd movie I've got from this app and I'm curious does anyone know if you delete a movie do you have to pay for it if you want to download it again?
Thinking about eventually space becoming an issue...

In Vancouver. Tried the App World link and the Canadian sign up as as above. Neither work. In app World I navigate to a page with the Download picture link and tap it till the cows come home and get nothin. Yes I activated my blackberry account and my PayPal payment option. Then I registered with the Blackberry Video Store and used the blackberrycanada.roxionow.com/redeem code. I can navigate to the Vidio Store but it indicates all activity is restricted to US territories. I go to My Library and what greets me is...Nothin! No worries, I know what a torrent is.

On PlayBook entered the coupon code, accepted and shown the three steps to get movie. Had no account so had to register, but the submit button is greyed out and won't let me continue. Had to go to the main registration page (looks the same) to register and that worked. Then went back and entered coupon code, which it says is expired.

Not sure what you mean by "main registration page"? If you're referring to the "workaround" address specified in the article, that is the same page as the one linked to from App World, so there's no difference there -- which means that the greyed-out Submit button is an intermittent issue.

So this greyed-out-Submit-button-until-you-enter-a-middle-name issue only affects the PB browser? (I haven't tried any other browser.) If so, what am embarrassing and amateurish mistake on Roxio's part! And if it affects all browsers, what an even more embarrassing and more amateurish mistake on Roxio's part!

Get it together, Roxio, you morons! RIM contracted you to run their video store, but your dev team doesn't even test your sites on a PlayBook? Idiots! Buy one; they're under $200 most days, fer chrissakes.

I went direcly to their home page an i clicked on their registration link. The regisration form is a little bit different. I filled this out succesfuly and i get back on the original link. Then, i was able ton finish the download process with no issue.

I live in Canada. In appworld the movie says " Only Available Canada" So I should be good. but I need the Video Store to download it, which according to my PB is " only available in US territories." Arg.

Enjoy it. Doesn't look or sound anyhere near as good as the Blu-Ray. Why? It's elementary, my dear Watson: 1.8 GB of data compared to nearly 50 GB on the BD (not that size is a determining factor as there are plenty of crap BDs out there, but it certainly explains the difference as this disc is very well mastered and looks and sounds fantastic).

They need content rights to other countries. They can't just give it away anywhere they wish, even if they want to. Unless you want RIM to pay millions when they get sued for giving it away for where they have no content rights..

Blame your government and the movie industry for not being able to have this freebie!

So I created a new BlackBerry Video Store account and received the "Congratulations, you have successfully redeemed your offer for: Sherlock Holmes" confirmation screen. Now I just need to:

4. Download the free BlackBerry Video Store app.

But there is no such app in App World; not even when searching for "video store" via a PC browser so that search results are not filtered by device.

Can anyone tell me what Michelle meant when she referred to the BlackBerry Video Store app? Is it perhaps called something else in the US, but she copy/pasted the Canada stuff and failed to change it? What gives?

And we have a winner! What a simple explanation; thanks, sk8ter_tor! Since it's considered an OS component instead of an app, of course it wasn't showing up on App World. And since I had long, long ago shuffled that icon off to the dark corners of an ill-used desktop folder, I had ceased to recall its existence.

The movie's downloading now, so to see if it successfully completed downloading, I will only have to wait, let's see -- and, it's done!

Unfortunately not available in germany... Of course we would need another offer, a adapted offer for a video-download.... What about the chaplin-film "The Great Dictator"? Or "Saw"? (Saw recalls the face of my Chancellor Merkel)....

Anyone else having problem after download? Got it downloaded, restarted PB, now NOT A SINGLE APP will work. System boots up, notifications come through, but none of the applications will work. Checked system memory, still plenty there. Anyone else experiencing this?

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